I tried to install RockBox on my very new Nano and ran into the problem that your program would not find my Nano. I grabbed your source and recompiled it to dump the unrecognized sector to disk. I found that the text "iPod" was actually at decimal offset 83 instead of 71. I uploaded a text dump here:

Should I just change the constant and be on my merry way? Is that safe, or do you want to have a look first? I suspect the newness of my Nano to be the culprit. Perhaps a bounded search would be better...?

That's a completely different boot sector to other ipods I've seen - mine (a 60GB iPod Color) is as follows:

So, today I've played an .ogg-file on my iPod Color. That is so brilliant. But my display was all messed up so I had to give it up.

After I installed the bootloader and the system defaulted into apples firmware, my display looked like 4-bit color or something. It looked normal when the background light came off. Then I installed rockbox and booted it and I have display problems there too. The menu don't stay still, it scrolls down the display...

Is it me or is my ipod not supported yet?

.zamel

There are two types of LCD in the iPod Color/Photo - the Rockbox LCD driver for the first type of LCD has not been tested by any Rockbox developer, so it's possible that either bugs in that driver are the cause of your problems, or Rockbox is not correctly detecting your type of LCD.

If you have some time for testing, come over to #rockbox on IRC - details (and a web client) are here:

You should be able to safely disable that check (or change the constant) and continue on your merry way. I would be interested to know how you got on.

Considering how different your boot sector is, I think I'll just add an || and check for either the "original" iPod string, or your example - assuming you don't run into any other problems.

Thanks,

Dave.

I updated to 1.1 firmware and now my boot sector is identical to what you show here.

Funny, the problem was not that my Nano was too new, but too old!

I don't particularly want to take the risk of going back to 1.0 and trying again (and, in fact, I wouldn't really know how). Probably the safest thing would be to leave your program the way it is and force people to have recent firmware installed.

Are there any plans to support older iPods? ie. the 4G? From what I've seen on the site their hardware is almost the same as the iPod photo, just without the colour LCD. It would be great to have alternative firmware to use as apple abandons support for these older iPods (I realise most people manage to break them quite quickly, but mine's still relatively unscathed )

I updated to 1.1 firmware and now my boot sector is identical to what you show here.

Funny, the problem was not that my Nano was too new, but too old!

I don't particularly want to take the risk of going back to 1.0 and trying again (and, in fact, I wouldn't really know how). Probably the safest thing would be to leave your program the way it is and force people to have recent firmware installed.

Thanks again!

Someone else reported the same boot sector as you on her Nano, so I decided to add a check for either boot sector signature. It seems to work fine, so I've released a new version of ipodpatcher.

Thanks for the feedback and I look forward to seeing those ARM optimisations for WavPack.

Thanks for the feedback and I look forward to seeing those ARM optimisations for WavPack.

Yeah, I see that the "high" mode WavPack files don't quite make it on the Nano yet...

I'm in the process of switching to Ubuntu, so I'll bug you guys soon if I have trouble building the tools. Maybe I'll even try IRC because I already have a client installed (except you're usually all asleep when I'm working!)

Rockbox does have a tag database, but it's been neglected over recent months. I've never looked at it, but I believe some people are using it successfully. However, efforts in that direction seem to have picked up recently, so maybe that area of Rockbox will be improved.

But for now, the only reliable way to play back your music is via directories and "static" playlists.

If ya'll need some help with that, let me know. I wrote a large part of the iTunesDB entry on the iPodLinux wiki, maybe it would be possible to make the thing capable of reading the normal iPod database (thus making it iTunes compatible... as long as the normal iPod folder structure remains on the thing, iTunes won't know the difference).

There seems to be some ambiguity as to whether sound is supported on the 5g video ipod. Can anyone confirm it working? I've got 1 1/2 hours to decide whether to run to Dixons and buy one so I can play my mpc files on it

There seems to be some ambiguity as to whether sound is supported on the 5g video ipod. Can anyone confirm it working? I've got 1 1/2 hours to decide whether to run to Dixons and buy one so I can play my mpc files on it

Nope, there is no sound driver for the Video iPod (5g) at this time. I think we're all waiting for the iPod Linux team to crack this one.

There seems to be some ambiguity as to whether sound is supported on the 5g video ipod. Can anyone confirm it working? I've got 1 1/2 hours to decide whether to run to Dixons and buy one so I can play my mpc files on it

5G is Video, right?

No, it doesn't work yet. But it will, I'm sure.

BTW, shouldn't this be on the News section?

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